Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
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To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.